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Gasdermins In Apoptosis: New Players In An Old Game., Corey Rogers, Emad S. Alnemri
Gasdermins In Apoptosis: New Players In An Old Game., Corey Rogers, Emad S. Alnemri
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers
Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death (PCD) that plays critical physiological roles in removing superfluous or dangerous cell populations that are unneeded or threatening to the health of the host organism. Although the molecular pathways leading to activation of the apoptotic program have been extensively studied and characterized starting in the 1970s, new evidence suggests that members of the gasdermin superfamily are novel pore-forming proteins that augment apoptosis by permeabilizing the mitochondria and participate in the final stages of the apoptotic program by inducing secondary necrosis/pyroptosis. These findings may explain outstanding questions in the field such as why …